ArticleTumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine2015
Questions about XY Wen et al. entitled "Matrix metalloproteinase 2 expression and survival of patients with osteosarcoma: a meta-analysis".
Article in Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.
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Abstract
XY Wen et al. published an article entitled "Matrix metalloproteinase 2 expression and survival of patients with osteosarcoma: a meta-analysis" in Tumor Biology last year. The investigators demonstrated that high MMP2 expression was associated with poor prognosis in osteosarcoma. After reading these articles, we have some questions about the data extraction and processing in the meta-analysis.
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